Davao City records 1,197 COVID-19 cases in one day; highest since 2020 ThisIsOurMindanao
DAVAO CITY – Davao City recorded 1,197 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, its highest single-day increase since the pandemic hit the city in March 2020, thrice the previous day’s 354 new cases, according to statistics released by the Department of Health’s regional health office here.
The DOH classifies an area with an ADAR of less than 1 as low risk while areas with above 7 are high risk. The city was “low risk” as of January 5 but by January 19, it had become “high risk.” “Due to the rising COVID-19 cases and the quarantine/isolation of our health care workers, we would like to inform the public and our health care partners that we will be limiting our non-COVID emergency department admissions to emergent and urgent conditions only,” it said.
From 60 ICU beds, SPMC added 27 more on January 17 to make it 87 as bed utilization rate breached the 50% mark on January 10 and steadily increased since then. As of January 18, 58 out of 87 ICU beds or 66.67% were occupied. The Davao region comprises the five Davao provinces – de Oro, del Norte, del Sur, Occidental and Oriental – and the cities of Davao, Panabo, Tagum, Samal, Mati and Digos. The region has a population of 5.24 million as of the May 2020 census, with Davao City accounting for 1.7 million.
On January 5, the region’s positivity rate was only 2% with 32 testing positive out of 1,607 who were tested, from results of 11 out of 14 laboratories in the region. On January 12, the region’s positivity rate was 14% from results conducted in 13 of 14 laboratories: 335 out of 2399.
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